The Bird's Word

Five hundred years ago, when Spanish conquistadors first set foot in Peru, the high Andes had abundant forests of a low-growing and durable tree called Queuña (Kay YOU nyuh). Today, these ancient forests have almost disappeared, and with them many of the species that once lived within them.

In 2007, Journeys International's Earth Preservation Fund joined Peruvian-based groups to help restore the forests of Peru's Lares region. What began as a strategy to help combat climate change also became a way to help villagers, especially women, improve the economics of their families.

Through its nonprofit, Earth Preservation Fund, Journeys International supports organizations that focus on community-based environmental, educational and cultural preservation programs in our destinations. Here one of those organizations, Birds of a Feather, shares its successes in 2016.

Birds of a Feather, founded in 2013, is a non-profit serving the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children in Uganda. Journeys International's non-profit arm, the Earth Preservation Fund, is proud to support Birds of a Feather through donations as well as trips to Uganda and neighboring Rwanda. Its newest initiative, sustainable poultry farming, will provide an opportunity for the organization to support a portion of it’s activities year after year.

Welcome to The Bird's Word, the blog of Journeys International. Here at Journeys, we don’t just visit a place. We immerse ourselves into the culture, the people and the places where we travel. It’s what we call “adventure deeper.” Won’t you join us?